[Peter O'Connor]
... We could use given for both the in-loop variable update and the variable initialization: smooth_signal = [average given average=(1-decay)*average + decay*x for x in signal] given average=0.
[Steven D'Aprano
I don't think that will work under Nick's proposal, as Nick does not want assignments inside the comprehension to be local to the surrounding scope. (Nick, please correct me if I'm wrong.)
Nick appears to have moved on from "given" to more-general augmented assignment expressions. See PEP 577, but note that it's still a work-in-progress: https://github.com/python/peps/pull/665 Under that PEP, average = 0 smooth_signal = [(average := (1-decay)*average + decay*x) for x in signal] Or, for the running sums example: total = 0 sums = [(total += x) for x in data] I'm not entirely clear on whether the "extra" parens are needed, so added 'em anyway to make grouping clear.